Better things Quote by Paul Ehrenfest

It is natural to think that an abstract science cannot be of much importance in affairs of human life, because it has omitted from…

— Alfred North Whitehead

I do not believe that the present flowering of science is due in the least to a real appreciation of the beauty and intellectual…

— Derek Barton

The most obvious characteristic of science is its application: the fact that, as a consequence of science, one has a power to do things.…

— Richard P. Feynman

One of the goals of philosophy is wage theoretical battle. That is why we can say that every thesis is always, by its very…

— Louis Althusser

Scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it. It must be done for itself, for…

— Marie Curie

... a science must deal with a subject and its properties.

— Aristotle

I always say that keeping abreast of science should never be seen as a chore. It should be something you do naturally. I don't…

— Alastair Reynolds

The art of science is as important as so-called technical science. You need both. It's this combination that must be recognized and acknowledged and…

— Jonas Salk

Physics is the most fundamental, and least significant, of the sciences.

— Ken Wilber

My interest in science was always essentially limited to the study of principles.... That I have published so little is due to this same…

— Albert Einstein

Consequently, the first thing to be done in any search after philosophic principles is to travel over the special sciences with a view to…

— Hugh Elliot

But the nature of my main work in chemistry can be better represented by more than 280 English publications, of which roughly 200 concern…

— Kenichi Fukui